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Bennett Compost announced its acquisition of Circle Compost in an email to customers on December 12, with the merger officially taking effect in 2026. Starting January 5, Circle Compost is servicing its subscribers as Bennett. BioCycle profiled Bennett Compost in a feature article in January 2025, chronicling its evolution from a scrappy start-up in 2009 to a company that collects and composts about 200 tons/month of residential and commercial food scraps. According to an article in Grid magazine about the recent merger, Circle Compost was founded by David Bloovman and his wife Michele in 2016. “We launched at the exact same price that [Bennett] had,” said Bloovman in the Grid article. “At the time, they were $15 a month for a five gallon bucket emptied weekly. And I told him, ‘I didn’t do this so that we could go out there and be 14 bucks.’ We just wanted to give another option.” At the time of the acquisition, Circle Compost was collecting and composting more than 25 tons/month from commercial and residential customers. With the two companies combined, more than 9,000 households and 205 businesses are receiving collection services.

Bloovman approached Bennett with the idea to join forces. Notes the Grid article, “Continuing to grow Circle’s commercial business in a meaningful way would have been very challenging to do with Bennett as a competitor. Bloovman says he was never interested in selling Circle to a third-party company.” He told Grid: “You’d still have two different companies going down that same block for those different buckets. I was not interested in that. So I didn’t talk to any other potential buyer.” Tim Bennett added: “For us, it’s incredibly important that we try to keep the composting scene here local.”